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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. VelocityDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOracles in-memory data grid solutionA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencevelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer4D, IncAmazonOracleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842007201620072011
Current releasev20, April 202314.1, August 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive EventsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationBased on Windows Authentication

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